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2020 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,760 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2529th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Golden Valley County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 18, 2020 18:00 | May 18, 2020 20:00 | 2h | 55 | 54 |
| 2 | March 15, 2020 03:30 | March 15, 2020 05:45 | 2h 15m | 15 | 26 |
| 3 | July 4, 2020 02:30 | July 4, 2020 02:45 | 15m | 14 | 4 |
| 4 | February 25, 2020 18:00 | February 26, 2020 20:00 | 1d 2h | 9 | 186 |
| 5 | February 26, 2020 20:45 | February 29, 2020 11:45 | 2d 15h | 9 | 434 |
| 6 | February 29, 2020 12:30 | March 2, 2020 05:00 | 1d 16h | 9 | 272 |
| 7 | March 2, 2020 05:45 | March 4, 2020 14:15 | 2d 8h | 9 | 385 |
| 8 | March 4, 2020 15:30 | March 5, 2020 00:45 | 9h 15m | 9 | 77 |
| 9 | March 5, 2020 01:45 | March 5, 2020 05:00 | 3h 15m | 9 | 25 |
| 10 | March 5, 2020 05:45 | March 6, 2020 03:45 | 22h | 9 | 158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Golden Valley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley County, ND annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/north-dakota/golden-valley-county